The said network adapter is not recognized in 13.04.
In 12.04 and 12.10 I had used the driver proposed from broadcom download site, configured as dkms package it was always updated.
On the 3.8.x kernels this provided kernel driver from broadcom does not compile anymore - and the distribution provided tg3 drivers does not recognize the ethernet adapter - even though it is a newer version.
~$ modinfo /lib/modules/3.8.0-19 generic/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.ko | grep -i version
version: 3.128
srcversion: D737202366709FE01964BF0
vermagic: 3.8.0-19-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
Here the working version on kernel 3.5.x using dkms
~$ modinfo /lib/modules/3.5.0-25-generic/updates/dkms/tg3.ko | grep version
version: 3.124c
srcversion: D01ED9A7BF2C3956E212A63
vermagic: 3.5.0-25-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
The Network card:
~$ lspci -nn | grep 0200
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1686] (rev 01)
As found on the i7 Mac Mini 6,2.
Anyone knows where I can get a kernel that recognizes that ethernet device ?
That chip is supported somehow ...
And - the 3.8.x kernel is way better on the HD4000 chip - reason I use it.
Note - to get the WiFi working, just make sure you load the b43 driver at boot (/etc/modules). At least then you have Network connectivity.
This bug has been fixed with kernel 3.8.0-22.33 - mac-mini now recognizes this chip with the stock kernel from ubuntu without recompile:
smurphy@Pandora:~$ uname -a
Linux Pandora 3.8.0-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 16 15:17:14 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
smurphy@Pandora:~$ lspci | grep -iethernet
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
smurphy@Pandora:~$
After a fresh installation make sure you tell the installer to also install the latest updates, and this will fix this issue as if it never existed.
Apparently there was a regression introduced in 3.8.0-20...
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